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Beijing to Hospitalize Wackos For '08
The Beijing committee overseeing planning for the 2008 Olympics announced in Friday's Beijing Morning Post that the city's mentally ill would be be hospitalized during the games. The measure would be one of many outlined by the Beijing office to polish the city's image for the international community. For some time now, China has aimed to not only prove a worthy host, but to offer an Olympics more fine-tuned than the world has ever seen. Beijing officials fear these street-crazies will paint a portrait of Beijing that doesn't represent the "true Beijing." But more than anything else, the city of Beijing fears one of these demented wackos will wig out and startle one of the millions of White people expected to be in the capital for the Olympics. The quarantining of the mentally ill is not unprecedented in Beijing as officials rid its streets of looneys and ordered all handicapped people to stay in their homes for an unsuccessful 2000 Olympic bid. Needless to say, human rights watch groups were not pleased to learn of the Beijing plan fearful that the whackjobs would be removed with force. This plan to institute order at the cost of, well, morality will certainly not be the last of its kind as China officially opens its doors to the world in 2008.

•News from Beijing 2008, 9/15/06